Fox News Latino: These days in Brazil two women are simultaneously walking down the aisle to marry the same man. The BBC is reporting that a union between three people, two women and a man, in Sao Paulo is causing major outrage. The publication says that public notary Claudia do Nascimento Domingues, based in the city […]
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UK Daily Mail: "Wife Whose Husband Became Secret Sperm Donor Calls for Change in the Law to Require Partners' Consent"
The UK Daily Mail: A married woman whose husband donated sperm without her knowledge is calling for clinics to be forced to ask for a wife’s consent. The unnamed mother-of-one from Surrey said she feared that children fathered with the sperm – who would be half-brothers or sisters of her son – may one day […]
Text of DNC Platform Calling for "Marriage Equality"
From the 2012 Democratic National Committee website: Freedom to Marry. We support the right of all families to have equal respect, responsibilities, and protections under the law. We support marriage equality and support the movement to secure equal treatment under law for same-sex couples. We also support the freedom of churches and religious entities to […]
Independent Journalist: NOM is More Transparent than Freedom to Marry
Michael Petrelis accuses Freedom to Marry of engaging in a double-standard when it comes to transparency: Put aside the respective agendas of Evan Wolfson and his gay marriage group Freedom to Marry, and Brian Brown of the oppositional National Organization for Marriage, because I want to focus on the matter of transparency at both groups. […]
Essence Mag: "Black Pastor Denounces Obama as a Hollywood Sellout"
Essence News Editor Wendy Wilson was in Tampa last week to “find out exactly why [African Americans in attendance] aren’t backing President Obama in 2012. Here is part of her interview with Rev. William Owens: ESSENCE: Why are you attending the RNC, and what’s the message you want to send here? REV. WILLIAM OWENS: We […]
AP Publishes Bogus Story on Washington Marriage Campaign and Catholic Church
Reuters as a company is pro-gay marriage. Has AP now joined the club? How could a reporter get the basic facts so wrong — and yet so exactly what Dan Savage wanted published? A Washington state official has called an Associated Press report misleading for suggesting that the government was banning the Catholic Church from […]
Sociologist Defends Controversial Gay-Parenting Study in New Paper
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Here are highlights from the new paper [by Mark Regnerus] (which is unfortunately not available free online, though you can find the abstract and some tables here): Regnerus calls the audit of his study—by Darren E. Sherkat of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale—a “rather uncommon and disturbing experience in social-science […]
Life and Marriage Coalition Unites on Social Issues in Presidential Swing States
From their press release: A coalition of the nation’s most prominent conservative social issue groups (www.lifeandmarriagecoalition.com) today announced that they are coordinating efforts in Ohio, Iowa and North Carolina to talk about the importance of preserving marriage as the union of one man and one woman, and supporting the sanctity of human life. The groups […]
The Moral Liberal on The Persecution of Mark Regnerus
Carl L. Bankston III, professor of sociology at Tulane Universty in New Orleans and prolific author writes at the Moral Liberal blog: Two of the greatest problems in social research are confirmation bias and the attribution of causal relations among concepts. The first refers to the tendency to find results that confirm our preconceived ideas. […]
CitizenLink: University Vindicates Mark Regnerus
Karla Dial writes: The University of Texas at Austin announced Wednesday that a sociologist who has been excoriated by some in the media over a study showing that parents’ homosexual relationships can have negative effects on children is innocent of academic misconduct Dr. Mark Regnerus made headlines in June, when his study was published in […]
The Statesmen: UT Finds No Scientific Misconduct in Study on Gay Parenting
The Statesmen: A University of Texas faculty member did not commit scientific misconduct in connection with his study that raised doubts about gay parenting, the university has concluded. As a result, no formal investigation of allegations against Mark Regnerus, an associate professor of sociology, is warranted, UT announced Wednesday. “I think it’s a just and […]
ADF: Regnerus Study Vindicated
Alliance Defending Freedom: An official University of Texas at Austin inquiry has found that Professor Mark Regnerus, the author of a research study on the effects of same-sex relationships upon children, “did not commit scientific misconduct” as alleged by a homosexual activist who disagreed with the study’s findings. “America’s universities should always serve as truth-seeking, […]
Pro-Marriage Activists Protest that Scottish Government "Ignored the 64%"
The BBC: Opponents of gay marriage have staged a demonstration outside a meeting of the Scottish cabinet. The group Scotland For Marriage staged the protest before the meeting at Renfrew Town Hall. …Scotland For Marriage, which is backed by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Scotland and the non-denominational Christian Institute charity among others, has described […]
Brian Brown on CBN News: GOP Right to Reject Gay Marriage in Platform
CBNNews: Brian Brown, with the National Organization for Marriage (LINK), told CBN News the Democrats have taken such extreme positions backing same sex marriage and abortion, they may lose groups they think are solid Democratic voters.”And I don’t think the Democratic Party can continue to just simply take advantage and be nonchalant about the votes […]
Poll: Just 6% of Gay Voters Say Gay Marriage is Most Important Issue
The Washington Times: “…A poll taken last week by Harris Interactive of more than 1,000 voters who identified themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender found that nearly one-third dubbed the economy the nation’s most pressing issues with only 6 percent calling same-sex marriage most important.”




